by Pat Darnell
Snipe or Sniper, what's the diff? Ever go on a Snipe hunt with your new il bastardo friends? Blimey, it is not as fun as cow tipping. Poor cows.
SNIPE Hunt -- Noun; 1. an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it; "in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage"Here's the draw: you can reverse the challenge by going out as if you are playing their game. Then you spend the next three hours at the bars, hopping from one to the other. They will stay out there all night waiting for you to return to their circle jerk of friends to herd a snipe into your bag. HA HA! We all have big hearty laugh... no?
(hypernym) practical joke [SOURCE]
Attrition-challenged friends, well, you need them for certain times in business and social situations -- but most needed for war. Although, you least need them running the show for you. Suppose attrition-challenged is also "Gullible." Gullibility, sounds sort of like Hill-Billity, and one could make that connection. Gullible -- It's the inverse of first rule of boxing; "Protect yourselves at all times..." no?
This game of snipe is to test gullibility. Who is most gullible? Not the pack of past winners who wait for you to lose...? Or Not you the player who lets them run in the field all night waiting for you to return as since their aim is to make you play by their rules?
If everyone leaves, then the game is a draw. It would be nice also if you left remains of dead carcasses where you were last seen. Unnatural arrangement of the dead things, it turns out, will bring out emotionality in the game. If your wannabe friends are also ED [emotionally disturbed] you could film this episode, and get some youTube views, as first journal of ED kids on a Snipe Hunt gone bad... eh? Could turn out to be Shakespearean in scale: re-write of King Lear in three acts.
In final comments: the whole masquerade boils down to Words. As the games develop, so do wars... and means do not, [repeat: do not], ever justify the ends of war, games, or attrition. How it turns out is generally the same every time. The best action is to just walk away, take a stroll, enjoy some fresh air.
There is billions of lifetimes wasted and interrupted by games, wars, -- genocide, while attrition plays its role of allowing attrition-challenged's to fill positions they might never have filled.
That is why each of us must become Word Snipers, and be alert to the challenge of false war games... no?
A snipe hunt, also known as a fool's errand or wild goose chase, is one of a class of practical jokes that involves experienced people making fun of newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task.(See: Also HERE)
For example, inexperienced campers are told about a bird or animal called the snipe as well as a usually ridiculous method of catching it, such as running around the woods carrying a bag or making strange noises. Incidentally, the Snipe [various species of shorebirds] is difficult to catch for experienced hunters, so much so that the word "sniper" is derived from it to refer to anyone skilled enough to shoot one[wkpd].
2 comments:
that was life chnging
I think I know what you mean...
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